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Cross-country is about to start. Optimum time will be 8 minutes 27 seconds. Live streaming https://www.clipmyhorse.tv/en_EU/live/4209/concours-complet-international-de-saumur-cci-3-l-cross

Stacchiotti is going for 10 gold medals. (this was before San Marino 2017 )

Apparently anyone who was thought to be a boxnig judge is corrupted. Therefore they shall make a random draw of the people who never took interest in boxing.

Looks like Nemtsava and Gambrinus withdrew after dressage, unless the scoreboard is broken... This really is not going very well for Team Belarus.

Judging by this thread, Sabbatini is apparently the World's most famous golfer. Tiger who?

Bees are exiting EU too?

Standings after 2nd day of dressage... There will be another day of dressage tomorrow because 100+ combinations are entered. 78.2 87.4 94.9 97.2 99.5 103.6 114.1 118.4 ------------------- 66.2 (only two team members started so far). Tomorrow's 3rd day of dressage + show jumping will be live streamed on FEI's youtube channel.

No, @Olympian1010, you really should ride a bike with an iPad strapped on.

I don't think he will appreciate such grownsplaining.

So really for @Olympian1010?

Joanna Pawlak & Fantastic Frieda are incredibly reliable jumping combination. That horse never encountered a problem on cross-country in her entire career, what is quite impressive. Pawel Spisak were top 20 at WEG last year, so very much another reliable combination. So it will really be up to Warszawski and/or Kleniuk to deliver steady clear rounds.

Standings after dressage... 93.0 112.2 114.0

Spisak ties his mentor Michael Jung, but still takes the lead thanks to higher collective marks.

Russian Vysotskaya got 51.1 penalties. Oh dear...

Zelenko eliminated in dressage (horse unlevel). They should just award this quota to Poland and be done with it.

Why don't you apply the discard score already? It's kind of hard to follow the standings without it.

It's a huge week for eventing. Aside from Group C and Groups F/G Olympic qualifiers, this week will also see the start of the 2019 Nations Cup season. These nations will take part at the season opener in Houghton hall... Top ranked nation in the season's rankings will receive a team slot for Tokyo 2020. Houghton Hall results can be followed here. Dressage has already started.

Start list is out for tomorrow. We have a late individual entry - Imre Toth. Once again it's significant since this competition offers a lot of individual ranking points for Group C nations. Competition will however also be open to non-Group C individuals. Most notably we have double Olympic champion Michael Jung himself making a long format debut aboard Chipmunk. Chipmunk is the horse on which Julia Krajewski lead dressage at last year's WEG. It's a new ride for Jung this year, and, yeah, this may as well be a debut performance of the 2020 Olympic champions... Polish team has been selected - Warszawski, Pawlak, Spisak, Kleniuk.

Impressive consistency from Hong Kong today though.

They should be available here, eventually (under CCIO4*-L section). Group C qualifier will be streamed here - https://www.clipmyhorse.tv/en_EU/.

Hong Kong should normally do better than Thailand on cross-country day, but that may not be the case this time. Even if they don't incur any eliminations, they will still presumably ride under team orders and rack up quite a few time penalties... Team orders are very common in eventing championships, much unlike the popular opinion that the team event is just adding the individual scores... Btw, the event is being streamed on the official website - https://www.saumur.org/en/

Why? Dutch will miss out for sure now. Not like the chance was much better with 48 teams.

Screw it, money beats enemies. Or maybe by "willing" they mean they tried to steal the whole thing from Qatar.

Morinari Watanabe? Hello Japanese medals.

Start list is out for tomorrow. Team members are marked with an asterix (*). For whatever reason, Japan will also take part in the team event. https://www.worldsporttiming.com/live/read/index.php?config=801